A Corsican woman goads her reluctant, Europeanized brother into carrying out the blood vendetta owed for their father's murder.
Books that mention Colomba (3)
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: “She wanted to learn, thinking that if she could read, as Paul said he could read, "Colomba", or the "Voyage autour de ma Chambre", the world would have a different face for her and a deepened respect.”
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller: “In French we have finished "Colomba," and I am reading "Horace" by Corneille”
Words of a Pygmy by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa: “Mérimée disliked confession. Yet does his Colomba not speak of himself in hints? [auto-translated]”